| Longing for the Good Life: Virtue Ethics After Protestantism Contributor(s): Vos, Pieter (Author), Brock, Brian (Editor), Parsons, Susan F. (Editor) |
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ISBN: 0567695077 ISBN-13: 9780567695079 Publisher: T&T Clark OUR PRICE: $133.65 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: November 2020 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Religion | Theology - Religion | Christian Theology - Ethics - Religion | Ethics |
| Dewey: 241.040 |
| LCCN: 2020024672 |
| Physical Information: 0.56" H x 6.14" W x 9.21" (1.08 lbs) 224 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: This book argues that Protestant theological ethics not only reveals basic virtue ethical characteristics, but also contributes significantly to a viable contemporary virtue ethics. Pieter Vos demonstrates that post-Reformation theological ethics still understands the good in terms of the good life, takes virtues as necessary for living the good life and considers human nature as a source of moral knowledge. Vos approaches Protestant theology as an important bridge between pre-modern virtue ethics, shaped by Aristotle and transformed by Augustine of Hippo, and late modern understandings of morality. The volume covers a range of topics, going from eudaimonism and Calvinist ethics to Reformed scholastic virtue ethics and character formation in the work of S ren Kierkegaard. The author shows how Protestantism has articulated other-centered virtues from a theology of grace, affirmed ordinary life and emphasized the need of transformation of this life and its orders. Engaging with philosophy of the art of living, Neo-Aristotelianism and exemplarist ethics, he develops constructive contributions to a contemporary virtue ethics. |